10 Litre Sunday SMaSH

cajsparky · May 10, 2015

Thought I would have a bash at a SMaSH beer this weekend so decided on this recipe:

2.3kg Maris Otter
Mashed for 60mins
60 min boil
10g Citra @ 30 mins
10g Citra @ 15 mins
5g Citra @ 10 mins
5g Citra @ 5 mins
10g Citra steeped for 10 mins when cooled down to 80 degrees.

US-05 Yeast

Will post some pics showing the method I have been using for BIAB with the Wilkos 12 Litre stock pot.

cajsparky · May 10, 2015

Mashed in with 6 Litres of water in the pot.

cajsparky · May 10, 2015

Put to bed for 60 mins. The Temp went up to 67.2 just after I took the first picture. It dropped back down to 66.8 after the 60 min mash.

cajsparky · May 10, 2015

I then lifted the bag and put a colander underneath.
I had pre heated 5 litres of water to 80 degrees in another pan and slowly poured this over the grains. Meanwhile boiling another kettle full of water to add this to the pan and adjusting temp to maintain 80 degrees so in total sparging with 7 litres of water. Can only fit 5 litres in the other pan!

cajsparky · May 10, 2015

Boiled for 60 mins. Nearly boiled over taking my eyes off the prize so probably best keeping boil volume to around 10 litres.Hop additions as per schedule including Irish moss at 15mins.

cajsparky · May 10, 2015

Not built an immersion chiller yet so its into the sink with plenty of water changes and ice blocks. I added 3 litres of cold bottled water at this stage and gave the wort a bit of a whirlpool.

cajsparky · May 10, 2015

When wort was down to 25 ish degrees I syphoned it into fermenter .
As you can see from the photo I collected just over 10 litres.

cajsparky · May 10, 2015

Took a hydrometer reading and it came out at 1.042 so looking somewhere around the 4% mark which is ok but quite short of the 1.051 I was looking for.
Anyway Yeast pitched at 20 degrees and into the brew cupboard.
Cheers

stevej · May 10, 2015

Nice post and great pics

cajsparky · May 10, 2015

Cheers stevej

Chippy_Tea · May 10, 2015

Nice post and great pics

Couldn't agree more.

MyQul · May 10, 2015

cajsparky said:
Took a hydrometer reading and it came out at 1.042 so looking somewhere around the 4% mark which is ok but quite short of the 1.051 I was looking for.

Couple of ways to increase your efficiency and hit you OG targets.

1) Halfway through the mash give it a good stir

2) Put your colender in/on another pot/bucket/recepticle and then put the mash bag full of grain in/on the recepticle and leave it there to drain till about 30 mins into the boil. You'd be amazed at how much grains absorb and how much will drain into recepticle. Put this runnings into a seperate pot heat to boiling and add to the main boil. Make sure they been boiled for at least 15 mins though to kill any bacteria and drive of any unwanted compounds like DMS that can cause off flavours in your beer

Nice piccies btw

clibit · May 10, 2015

Thanks for posting the pics, should be a lovely beer!

cajsparky · May 10, 2015

Cheers MyQul!
To be honest the past couple of brews I have emptied my second pot until I could fit the grain bag into it, I then dunked the bag ,opened and stirred then added to main vessel. Will follow your way on the next brew. I am also going to try a finer crush. Thanks for advice.

cajsparky · May 10, 2015

No probs Clibit! I have seen quite a few posts regarding the Wilko's 12litre stockpot so thought it would be interesting maybe helpful for people to see a brew day with it!

clibit · May 10, 2015

Very helpful. :thumb:

yeastinfection · May 11, 2015

Excellent. I've done 3x small brews so far .ended up with about 3 ltr the first two times and topped up to 5 ltr the third time following advise on here. Buy it's a lot of work for not a lot of beer .so found this interesting. I'm planning on buying the wilko pan and doing this. Is it ok to ferment it in large fv. You get I read on here it caused an issue? To much air/head room .something like that.
Thanks for the pics. Found them very inspiring.

clibit · May 11, 2015

You can get a smaller fv easily and cheaply enough. And probably better. You can get five 10 litre buckets for Â£8 on eBay. And food safe bucket with a kid is ok. I picked a few up from a take away for nothing. You can even ferment in the stock pot, I did that first time.

cajsparky · May 11, 2015

So far so good in the large fermenter!
In my reckoning I ferment for 3 weeks so just don't take the lid off in that period and disturb the barrier it creates.
If its got trub and krausen building it's off and fermenting so leave it well alone I say!
Just another pic to show this!
Thanks Yeastinfection!
Its becoming a great hobby!

cajsparky · May 11, 2015

Sorry right way up!

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